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100
Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things ....
Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die)
by Jon Weisman, Foreword by Peter O'Malley
Paperback from Triumph Books
ISBN: 1600781667
Dodgers fans have experienced many good times, including multiple postseason
appearances and six championships. But being a Dodgers fan is about more
than following a winning team. 100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know &
Do Before They Die will help fans of the Dodgers get the most out of being
a fan. It takes 125 years of Dodgers history from both Brooklyn and Los
Angeles and distills it to the absolute best and most compelling, identifying
in an informative, lively, and illuminating way the personalities, events,
and facts every Dodgers fan should know without hesitation. |
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Dodgers
Past & Present
by Steven Travers
Hardcover from MVP Books
ISBN: 0760335273
From their origins
as the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1884, through their departure from their beloved
borough in 1957, to their record-breaking popularity in sunny Los Angeles,
the Dodgers baseball team has been an unstoppable force in professional
baseball for well over a century. The franchise has captured a record 21
National League titles, won six World Series championships, and produced
dozens of Hall-of-Famers. The Dodgers revolutionized the sports landscape
with the signing of Jackie Robinson in 1947 and have boasted a list of
players that reads like an all-time all-star team--from Walter Alston to
Zack Wheat, Wee Willie Keeler to Pee Wee Reese, Dazzy Vance to Sandy Koufax,
Duke Snider to Jeff Kent. The team's two longtime homes--Brooklyn's Ebbets
Field and Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium--stand out in the pantheon of great
baseball palaces.
Dodgers Past
& Present traces the history of this storied franchise from its
origins in the 1880s to its latest accomplishments on the field. Pairing
historic black-and-white photos and contemporary images of the modern game,
the book explores the ballparks and the fans, the players and the teams
that have defined Dodger baseball and captured the attention of fans nationwide. |
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Forever
Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial
Owner,and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
by Michael D'Antonio
Hardcover from Riverhead Hardcover
If ever there was a figure who changed the game of baseball, it was
Walter O'Malley. Criticized in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O'Malley
is one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports.
He remade the major leagues and altered the course of history in both Brooklyn
and Los Angeles when he moved the Dodgers to California. But while many
New York critics attacked him, O'Malley looked to the future, declining
to argue his case. As a result, fans across the nation have been unable
to stop arguing about him--until now.
Using never-before-seen documents and candid interviews with O'Malley's
players, associates, and relatives, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael
D'Antonio finally reveals this complex sportsman and industry pioneer.
Born into Tammany Hall connections, O'Malley used political contacts to
grow wealthy during the Great Depression, and then maneuvered to take control
of the formerly downtrodden Dodgers. After his defeat in a war of wills
with the famed power broker, Robert Moses, O'Malley uprooted the borough's
team and transplanted them to Los Angeles. Once in Los Angeles, O'Malley
overcame opponents of his stadium and helped define the city. Other owners
came to regard him as their guide--almost an unofficial commissioner--and
he worked behind the scenes to usher in the age of the players' union and
free agency.
Filled with new revelations about O'Malley's battle with Moses, his
pioneering business strategies, and his relationship with Jackie Robinson,
Forever Blue is a uniquely intimate portrait of a man who changed
America's pastime forever. His fascinating story is fundamental to the
history of sports, business, and the American West. |
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101
Reasons to Love the Dodgers
by Ron Green Jr.
Hardcover from Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Talk about a grand slam. With nearly 100,000 copies in print, the previous
books in David and Ron Green's "101 Reasons to Love" series have hit the
ball right out of the park. Now Ron and Dave extend the home-run streak,
bringing their offbeat humor, insiders' grasp of baseball fact and legend,
and good-natured rivalry--as brothers and as fans--to new books about two
of the National League's all-time greatest teams.
Pairing the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants is a natural.
After all, both clubs were born in New York City, and both moved to the
West Coast in 1958. Both teams have lost the World Series exactly 12 times.
And concessionaires at both teams' ballparks have made important contributions
to that staple of baseball "cuisine"--the hot dog.
The glorious wins and the ignominious losses. The breathtaking hits,
astounding catches, inexcusable errors. Whether you're cheering the Dodgers
or jeering the Giants--or vice versa--you gotta love 'em. And, together,
these books give you 202 reasons for doing so. |
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Dodgers
Journal: Year by Year and Day by Day with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles
Dodgers Since 1884
by John Snyder
Paperback from Clerisy Press
ISBN: 1578603331
The only major league team whose location was a borough rather
than a city or state, the Brooklyn Dodgers ended their run in 1957 when
Walter O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles. This was only ten years
after their proudest moment Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier
and two years after their greatest triumph, beating the hated Yankees in
the World Series after five losses. They've won the loyalty of fans throughout
the country but especially in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, where people bleed
Dodger Blue. Dodgers Journal is the definitive history of the team,
covering every season day by day and year by year from 1884 to 2008. The
book, equally good for extended reading, casual dipping, fact-checking,
and trivia games, is packed with photos and statistics and includes an
all-time roster, yearly lineups, all-decade all-star teams, interesting
and unusual facts, and unique season in a sentence" recaps. |
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True
Blue: The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Told by the Men
Who Lived It
by Steve Delsohn
Paperback from Harper Perennial
Media Published: 2002-
ISBN: 0380806150
In 1957 the Dodgers broke the hearts of blue-collar Brooklyn for the
embrace of booming Los Angeles. Thus began a new era for the fabled Bums,
whose exploits inside -- and outside -- the white lines have intrigued
generations of baseball fans.
Based on scores of fresh and exuberant interviews, True Blue
brings you into the dugout and the locker room, capturing the nearly half-century
of clutch performances, World Series triumphs, blown pennant races, clubhouse
brawls, contract disputes, stunning trades, and turbulent managerial changes
-- all with a startling insider's perspective.
In their own candid and provocative words, a who's who of Dodger legends
and stars such as Duke Snider, Maury Wills, John Roseboro, Don Sutton,
Steve Garvey, Ron Cey, Davey Lopes, Reggie Smith, Tommy Lasorda, Bill Russell,
Dusty Baker, Kirk Gibson, Steve Sax, and Eric Karros recall their years
with the Dodgers. Also providing their unique commentary are a number of
noted opponents, writers, and broadcasters, including Willie Mays, Sparky
Anderson, Pete Hamill, Roger Kahn, Tim McCarver, and Bob Costas.
Their voices, woven into a rich and fast-paced narrative, bring to life
the rise and shocking retirement of Sandy Koufax, Kirk Gibson's dramatic
1988 World Series home run, the controversial trade of Mike Piazza, and
so much more. It is the vivid story of how the Dodgers became one of the
great successes in major league history, winning nine National League pennants
and five World Series championships.
A fascinating and colorful history of a team, an era, and baseball itself,
True Blue is must reading for any baseball fan. |
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Illustrated
History Of The Dodgers
by Richard Whittingham
Hardcover from Triumph Books
ISBN: 1572437146
This richly illustrated book is a magnificent salute to one of the most
successful and popular baseball teams in the history of professional sports.
The story begins in Brooklyn in the 19th century, spans the first half
of the 20th, and focuses on the five decades during which the Dodgers have
called Los Angeles their home. The tale culminates with the Dodgers' dramatic
capture of the 2004 National League West title. It includes exciting accounts
of all the important games and championship seasons and is packed with
in-depth profiles of the most memorable players, managers, coaches, and
figures from every era. |
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The
Dodgers Move West
by Neil Sullivan
Paperback from Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195059220
For many New Yorkers, the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers--perhaps
the most popular baseball team of all time--to Los Angeles in 1957 remains
one of the most traumatic events since World War II. Neil J. Sullivan's
controversial reassessment of a story that has reached almost mythic proportions
in its many retellings shifts responsibility for the move onto the local
governmental maneuverings that occurred on both sides of the continent.
Conventional wisdom has it that Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley cold-heartedly
abandoned the devoted Brooklyn fans for the easy money of Los Angeles.
Sullivan argues that O'Malley had, in fact, wanted to stay in Brooklyn,
hoping to build a new stadium with his own money. Situated in an increasingly
unsafe neighborhood and without parking facilities, Ebbets Field had become
obsolete. Yet an uncooperative New York City administration, led by Robert
Moses, blocked O'Malley's plan to use the ideal site at the Atlantic Avenue
Long Island Railroad terminal. A political battle over the Dodgers' move
also erupted in Los Angeles. Mayor Poulson's suggestion to use Chavez Ravine
as the new stadium site triggered opposition from residents concerned about
a giveaway. Eventually a telethon campaign that enlisted the help of celebrities
such as Groucho Marx, George Burns, and Ronald Reagan enabled the approval
of the deal.
Set against a backdrop of sporting passion and rivalry, and appearing
over thirty years after the Dodgers' last season in Brooklyn, this engrossing
book offers new insights into the power struggles existing in the nation's
two largest cities. |
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The
Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball
by Glenn Stout, Richard A. Johnson
Hardcover from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618213554
Dodgers. The word conjures different
things to different people, but its distinction and notoriety is universal.
In the annals of baseball, the history of few other teams can compare to
the rich legacy of the Dodgers. Their constituency includes fans from Bensonhurst
to Burbank. Their colorful past dem bums," Jackie Robinson and the boys
of summer, Walter O'Malley, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda, bleeding Dodger
blue" has enlivened baseball in innumerable, immeasurable ways. And their
legacy, casting a 120-year shadow, remains essential to the very nature
of the game.
In a compelling, insightfully written narrative and more than two hundred
unforgettable photographs, many never before seen, The Dodgers: 120 Years
of Dodgers Baseball tells the team's story in its entirety, from its birth
in Brooklyn in 1884 and its early glories, to the heart-wrenching move
to Los Angeles in 1958, to the present day. The Dodgers' evolution, and
particularly their willingness to embrace change even when it was a wildly
unpopular choice, is also, writes Glenn Stout in his introduction, an inherently
American story that follows a familiar path, a story of immigration, assimilation,
migration, and change." In one of the only books to look at the team as
a unified whole, we see how the Dodgers helped create modern baseball in
Brooklyn, how they ushered the game into its contemporary form with the
signing of Jackie Robinson in 1945, and how they have borne witness to
the metamorphosis of baseball from an amateur game played by gentlemen
into a multibillion-dollar business. It's all here, a century and more
of history-making baseball. In these pages, readers will experience some
of the game's finest moments, greatest plays, and most unforgettable players,
including
the birth of the Trolley Dodgers" in an unlikely borough a legendary
series of stirring pennant races in the late 1940s and 1950s Jackie Robinson
and the integration of baseball the notorious move from East Coast to West
at the hands of the much-maligned Walter O'Malley the reemergence of the
Dodgers-Giants rivalry in California the game's most dynamic pitching duo,
Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale Kirk Gibson's dramatic home run in the 1988
World Series * and lively essays by such heralded Dodger chroniclers as
Dave Anderson, Jane Leavy, Bill Plaschke, Dick Young, and others |
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The
Dodgers: Memories and Memorabilia from Brooklyn to L.A.
by Bruce Chadwick
Hardcover from Abbeville Press
ISBN: 1558593802
From their early days as Brooklyn's "bums" to their beautification as
LA's true angels, this scrapbook of Dodgers' stories and souvenirs celebrates
one of the most colourful and loved teams in baseball. The Dodgers are
not a West Coast team or an East Coast team - they've always been, and
always will be, simply the Dodgers, true originals possessed of a charm,
bravado and crowd appeal like no other club in American sports. Almost
as old as the game itself, and every bit as quirky, the Dodgers have been
home to some of baseball's greatest heroes and biggest clowns. Known as
"bums" by friend and foe alike, this is a club that managed bo put three
players on third base at the same time (in 1926). But the Dodgers were
also the first to hire a black player, the glorious Jackie Robinson, and
one of two that first brought the game to the West Coast. The list of extraordinary
players is a mile long and the memorabilia associated with them is collected
with devotion on both coasts, and in between. Tickets from the 1916 World
Series against Boston, balls signed by Leo the Lip Durocher and Tommy LaSorda,
an usher's cap from old Ebbets field, a Jackie Robinson snuff box, Duke
Snider's signed jacket, Sandy Koufax's bat - are all here, a Dodger's treasure
chest, illustrating the story of one of baseball's legendary teams.
Take a tour down memory lane on a road paved in Dodger blue. This nostalgic
scrapbook chronicles the history of the Dodgers from their glory days at
Ebbets field in Brooklyn to Kirk Gibson's epic home run that defined the
1988 World Series. A fantastic collection of memorabilia clutters the pages
and images of Dodger greats abound.--D.G. McDonald |
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True
Blue: The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Told by the Men
Who Lived It
by Steve Delsohn
(Paperback)
The
Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Team (Great Sports Teams)
by David Pietrusza (Library Binding)
Los
Angeles Dodgers (America's Game)
by Chris W. Sehnert, Paul Joseph (School & Library Binding - March
)
The
History of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball (Mankato, Minn.).)
by Wayne Stewart (Library Binding)
Los Angeles Dodgers: The Championship Year
by Jim Bartruff
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